When things get tight people have been known to eat people so the last person on earth will be a meat eater! :yikes:......and veggies will take over the world 'cos you can feed 20 people from the same bit of land that will feed one cow in a year ....
I agree about the amount of stuff that seems to be needed to sleep warmly in a hammock in the cold, but sometimes, that peace, the fresh air, the realness of being outside, must be worth it
Meateaters ? last on the planet ? cannibals ? no, from all evidences cannibalism is not a long term survival strategy, and as I said earlier, food isn't just sustenance, and humanity is very complex Probably somekind of culturally constrained omnivore at the end of the day.
I've re-discovered an ancient outdoors shelter known as a 'tent'. Lighter and more weatherproof than a hammock and can be used in nearly all environments. It'll make the hammock obsolete!
Chiseller that is proper hardcore. There is times when only a boulder mat that can actually do boulders will do.
Cheers but......its not quite as hardcore as it seems.....where the mat laid was pretty level . Like a bench made of flatter stones, possibly made by shepards or huntsmen (foot packs hunting foxes regular with hounds) way back when .
Baaaaa but I was lol.T Come on, most sheep aren't stupid enough to kip up the top of scarfel.
In non-primate species it's certainly a good indicator, but not definitive. Forward pointing eyes allow excellent depth perception, which would be absolutely critical in an arboreal species, as many would hold our ancestors to have been. The gibbon who cannot accurately judge the distance between branches soon becomes a damp patch on the jungle floor - regardless of what it eats.an important part of our physique to consider is forward pointing eyes this is generally very predatory
"Bob, we missed the Basmati rice" "Don't worry honey, we'll get it on the next pass!"and we still unvolantarily display many predatory instincts such as circling prey (can be seen in the supermarket when people stroll pass something they miss and circle backwards or when someone is in the way they circle around them)
incoming @ Toddy....
Can't always grow crops where the animals can graze...sheep take to the hills which are useless for growing crops.
No, I agree that that's true, but I suspect that an arable use of the lands that we do use for grazing now (lowlands, I'm not talking about hill farms, though in the past the use of the cas crom (small foot plough, think really good spade) meant that small pockets of good, well sited, lands were actively cultivated for crops.) then the diet for a small planet becomes very realistic.
on a less sarcastic note i was a veggie once for a year just to try it (no ethical reason as such it was just for the heck of it) but being lactose intolerant it became hard to eat out anywhere it would appear the imagination of chefs is well for the veggie option we can do a creamy cheese type dish
Me too sick as a very sick thing eating milky stuff It's easy to get around it, but most commercial kitchen won't bother because the veggie option is actually a good seller to folks other than vegetarians. A good vegan restaurant is a pleasure to find
anyways back to the original post i haven't yet seen the merits of hammocks i do like to be at one with the earth waking up on the floor being bed washed by slugs besides all those ropes and things are bound to be a disaster for me im about as good with cord as kiar out of secrets of Nimh
I can see the appeal of hammocks, but I live in a country that has a problem with midgies in many of the places we like to camp, and since I have a real problem with clegs ......I like a good tent with an inner midge protection net tempted sometimes to just make a no seeum mesh tent and hang a tarp over the top, sometimes I have commented in the past that where there are a group of folks camping, and many are in hammocks, that the woodlands become like some giant spiderweb of throat grabbing lines. I know tents have guylines but at least there's a kind of expected symmetry to those.
cheers,
Toddy
However, each to their own, and no-one should be ridiculed for their choices of sleeping arrangements or diet, if it works for them and does no harm to others.
Suspended over an active volcano perhaps, can't think of anywhere else where I couldn't use a tent.